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뵁

hangul syllable bwaeng

Hangul syllable 뵁

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뵁 is a Hangul syllable block built from ㅂ ㅙ ㅇ. It represents one spoken syllable; a Korean word's meaning comes from the whole word, not from this block alone. Hangul was created to write Korean speech, which Chinese characters did not represent directly.

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What 뵁 means

It is one Korean syllable; the word around it supplies meaning. 뵁 brings the jamo ㅂ, ㅙ, and ㅇ together in one Hangul block. It contributes one spoken syllable to Korean spelling; the full word gives its meaning.

Hangul is the alphabetic writing system for Korean: its letters, called jamo, are arranged in square syllable blocks. The script's original name was Hunminjeongeum. A royal chronicle, the court's record of events, first records it in 1443; an explanatory book appeared in 1446. Hangul was created to write Korean speech, which Chinese characters did not represent directly.

Hangul is the preferred name in South Korea; North Korea uses Choseongul. Modern syllables can be encoded as one precomposed block or as a sequence of separate jamo. A Korean input method combines jamo as you type, but the separate sequence remains distinct text.

Why does 뵁 look different in different fonts?

The font changes the drawing, not the character. Fonts can change the shapes, size, and placement of ㅂ, ㅙ, and ㅇ inside the block. If 뵁 appears as an empty box, the font may not include a drawing for it; that is a display problem.

Neutral: 뵁 writes a Korean syllable; the word it appears in supplies the meaning.

A lone 뵁 identifies a syllable, not the full meaning of a word.

Who writes 뵁

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Questions people ask

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Why does 뵁 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 뵁

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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType BD41, then AltX to get 뵁.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable bwaeng”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType bd41, then Enter or Space.
HTML
뵁
CSS
\BD41
How do I type 뵁?
On a Korean input method (IME), enter ㅂ ㅙ ㅇ in that order; it composes them into one syllable block.
Need the separate jamo?
Enter ㅂ, ㅙ, and ㅇ separately when you need the component characters rather than the single block.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
뵁
HTML hex
뵁
CSS content
content: "\BD41";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EB%B5%81
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols